Foreword
What’s the future of network engineers? This is a question haunting many of us. In the past, it was somewhat easy; study for your networking certification, have the CCIE or CCDE as the ultimate goal, and your future was secured.
In my job as a General Manager within the Cisco Professional Services organization, working with Fortune 1000 clients from around the world, I meet a lot of people with opinions in this matter, with views ranging from “we just need software programmers in the future” to “data scientist is the way to go as we will automate everything.” Is either of these views correct?
My simple answer to this is, “no,” the long answer is a little more complicated.
The changes in the networking industry are to a large extent ...
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